TY - JOUR T1 - Green Designed Hotel as Innovation in Tourism Industry AU - Esmaeilifar, Reza AU - Mirzaei, Nasibeh Faghih AU - Shafiei, Mohd Wira Mohd AU - Albattat, Ahmad JO - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences VL - 10 IS - 8 SP - 227 EP - 237 PY - 2015 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1816-949x DO - jeasci.2015.227.237 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2015.227.237 KW - Green building innovations KW -green designed hotel KW -tourist satisfaction and hotels competitions KW -industry KW -environmental AB - As the public is increasingly concerned about environmental issues, green innovation is rapidly becoming a strategic tool that can enhance a hotel’s competitive advantage. One of the most important considerations for hotels in deciding whether to implement green initiative is to understand customers’ attitudes and demand for such new products. Green designed hotels have potential to be seen as new innovation in tourism I industry. Satisfaction and attractiveness level of tourists from green building design and green decorative was examined in this study, in addition, this study aims to find an answer for the question that is whether that hotels with green design can be seen as competitor in this industry or not? And can this satisfaction bring more interest about these kinds of hotels in this competition. The green design hotel have a positive effect on customer satisfaction and hotel wining competition. These results have important implications for designing strategic for the truism industry. A total of 406 cases were used to answer the research questions. Findings indicate that customer’ green designed hotels are in general, significantly associated with their expressed intentions to visit a green designed hotel to spread word of mouth about a green hotel and to pay more for it. ER -